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I get it's annoying to see a comment on almost every news article shared that contributes nothing to a conversation, but you can also just block the bot and be done with it.
I'm not sure why it's enough of a bug bear to take even the short amount of time it took to make this image and post it.
OP and others like them are seething at the fact that disinformation is more difficult now, you used to be able to post whatever insane bullshit you wanted and people might engage with it, now you've got a great big old banner at the bottom of your post telling everyone exactly how much bullshit you're spewing.
They've been outed, so now they've taken to attacking the credibility of their watchdog, because if they want people to continue to engage with their propaganda then people need a credible reason to distrust MBFC.
Disinformation is easier than ever on US corporate social media, because they’ve been folded into the US military-intelligence-propaganda-industrial complex.
I dunno I think that's a tad conspiratorial... lemmy is a pretty small audience upon which to launch state sponsored disinformation campaigns. It's a far simpler explanation that it's just some dork annoyed at bot comments, which makes sense tbh, it's just easy to solve by blocking the bot.
OP's account is less than 24 hours old and already contains two articles from nonreputable sources and a complaint urging people not to trust the reputability watchdog. Even if I am overreacting, that's a bad look.
Also, nobody said it has to be state sponsored. Nongovernmental actors propagandize shit all the time. People do it all the time for free in my home country, and I guarantee you've experienced the negative effects of it, because this is why you hear things about American conservatives every day.
A citizen who cannot trust their news cannot act. And a citizen who cannot trust an independent fact checker cannot trust their news.
Bit dramatic but hey fair enough!